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Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 05:47:18 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: MD5 on XOP, NEON, AltiVec
On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 05:25:16AM +0300, Solar Designer wrote:
> Here's what we had last year:
>
> Benchmarking: md5crypt, crypt(3) $1$ [MD5 128/128 XOP 8x]... (8xOMP) DONE
> Raw: 201472 c/s real, 25152 c/s virtual
>
> Here's what we have now:
>
> Benchmarking: md5crypt, crypt(3) $1$ [MD5 128/128 XOP 4x2]... (8xOMP) DONE
> Raw: 150272 c/s real, 18784 c/s virtual
>
> I tried looking at "objdump -d sse-intrinsics.o" in the old build vs.
> "objdump -d simd-intrinsics.o" in the current version, and I don't see
> any obvious problem. Moreover, raw-md5 hasn't regressed, and I think
> both it and md5crypt share the SIMDmd5body() function. At this point,
> my best guess is we might be getting unaligned buffers.
Guess not confirmed. We use buffers on the stack, and they are properly
aligned for 128-bit SIMD. This is unreliable for AVX2 and above, though.
Disabling the "#if __SSE4_1__ || __MIC__" block in SIMDmd5body()
improves performance slightly:
Benchmarking: md5crypt, crypt(3) $1$ [MD5 128/128 XOP 4x2]... (8xOMP) DONE
Raw: 156160 c/s real, 19520 c/s virtual
Perhaps there are other changes like this causing regressions as well.
We'll need to bisect the changes. magnum, will you do that?
> Once we figure this out and fix it, we'll need to revise MD5_I in
> simd-intrinsics.c to use my newly found expression with vcmov() on XOP,
> and the obvious expression with OR-NOT on NEON and AltiVec (IIRC, those
> archs have OR-NOT, which might be lower latency than select).
Alexander
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